The History of Genocide in Cinema : Atrocities on Screen.
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Half Title; Endorsement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributing Authors; Introduction; 1 Settler Colonialism and Genocide in Australia; Denying the Australian Genocide; Contesting Genocide on Film; Cinematic Specificity; Indigenous Filmmakers; Conclusion; 2 No Good Samaritans: Explaining African Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Popular African Films; They Saw, They Formed Empires; The White Man's Burden, Hollywood's Propagandists; Rodney's Underdeveloped Africa; The Films; 3 "White Saviors" Unable to Save the "Other" in Hollywood's Genocidal West; Last of the Mohicans.
- A Man Called HorseLittle Big Man; Dances with Wolves; Hidalgo; Conclusion; 4 Genocide as European Empire Building: The Slaughter of the Herero of Namibia; From Europe to Africa: Setting the Scene; Racism; Concentration Camps and Slave Labor; History and Historicism; A Need for African Historiography and Histories of Genocide; Medicine and Experiments; From Namibia to Germany: The Colonial Roots of the Nazi Holocaust; Twenty-First Century: Prospects of Reconciliation; 5 The Armenian Genocide in Film: Overcoming Denial and Loss.
- 6 The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 on Screen: Making Sense of Suffering"One-of-a-Kind:" Ukrainian Holodomor and Irish Gorta Mór; Re-Imagining the Holodomor: Collective Trauma in Feature Film; Conclusions; 7 The Holocaust in Feature Films: Problematic Current Trends and Themes; 8 Slaughter in China on Film: Nanjing and "Saving Asia" through Mutilation; Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1995); City of Life and Death (2009); Flowers of War (2011); 9 Bangladesh: The Forgotten Genocide; Background History: From East Pakistan to Bangladesh; Reporting the Horrors of Genocide.
- Heroic Efforts of Freedom FightersBackdrop for Human Interaction; Films About Women; 10 Argentina's Dirty War on Film: The Absent Presence of The Disappeared; 11 Featuring Acts of Genocide in Chilean Film; 12 Screening the Killing Fields: The Cambodian Genocide on Film; 13 "This time we're going to hit them without mercy": Indonesian Operations and East Timor's First Feature Film; The Marriage of Beatriz (Sandra Da Costa) and Tomas (Raimundo Dos Santos); Beatriz and Tomas Survive the Conventional War and the Famine; Cultural Motifs; Australian Complicity and Beatriz's War.
- "This time we're going to hit them without mercy"The CAVR Report as a Hidden Script; The Puzzling Absence of FRETILIN; Indonesia's Receptivity to the Film; 14 The Guatemalan Genocide on Film: An Ongoing Crisis and Omission; When Mountains Tremble; Granito; Haunted Land: Le pays hanté, la Palabra Desenterrada and Discovering Dominga; The Silence of Neto; Conclusion; 15 Cinematic Witnessing of the Genocide in Bosnia 1992-1995: Toward A Poetics of Responsibility; 16 "Truth" in Films about the Rwandan Genocide; Hotel Rwanda; Sometimes in April; Beyond the Gates; Shake Hands with the Devil.